From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29874 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2008 13:11:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 29714 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Nov 2008 13:11:50 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (212.99.106.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:11:15 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E323290005; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20ZsKBUl+FU1; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from ulanbator.act-europe.fr (ulanbator.act-europe.fr [10.10.0.139]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7F7290002; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Message-Id: From: Tristan Gingold To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Subject: Re: [RFA] Darwin/x86 port (v4 - part 0/4) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:03:00 -0000 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-11/txt/msg00501.txt.bz2 Thank you again for your comments. >> I realized that we don't support configuring as x86_64-*-darwin*. >> Maybe I should add it ? > > Probably, but I admit I don't know enough about the details. As this cannot be reported by config.guess, I won't add it now. Could be of course revisited later. >> + When set to a non zero value, enables debugging messages while >> gdb is >> + reading Darwin object files. The object and executable file format >> + for Darwin is named mach-o. > > The last sentence above should probably be in parentheses, as that's a > minor note. Also, I would rearrange slightly: > > (@dfn{Mach-o} is the file format used on Darwin for object and > executable files.) Ok. >> + @kindex set mach-exceptions >> + On Darwin, faults are first reported as a mach exception and then >> as a >> + signal. Use this command to turn on trapping of mach exceptions in >> + the inferior. This might be seldom useful to better understand the >> + cause of a fault. The default is off. > > So you are basically saying that mach exceptions are native Darwin > exceptions, and they are then mapped to Posix signals? At least that > is what I understand from this explanation. Yes. I have used your reworded sentence. > Also, please make sure you have 2 spaces after each period that ends a > sentence. Sure. Tristan.